Mr. Mill has addressed his Committees and the constituency of
Westminster. In the first speech he showed the extent and length of his services to the Liberal cause, which he has-defended for thirty years, and frequently in an apparently hopeless minority. He and Mr. Roebuck, for example, were at one time the only two men who advocated self-government for the Colonies. On the second occa- sion Mr. Mill told the electors that he preferred being honest to being elected, and that he had for that reason frankly alluded to "crotchets" about which he was almost mire not to be asked. He promised to support Mr. Gladstone, and defined the difference between a Tory and a Liberal—a Liberal being "a man who looked forward for his principles of Government, and a Tory one who looked backward for his ;" "he was of opinion that we had not yet arrived at a perfect model of Government, and had not seen such except in outline ; but he looked for it before, and not behind, and he saw that it lay in the emancipation of the depend- ent classes. It lay in more freedom, more equality, more res- ponsibility of each person for himself." Mr. Mill's chance is a good one, provided that the educated classes, and the work- men, and the convinced Liberals, who are his real supporters, will go to the poll. They should remember also that whether they like Captelii Grosvenor or not—which we do not profess to do—he --will vote for Liberal measures, and support Mr. Gladstone, and that their duty therefore is to vote for him as well as Mr. Mill. Westminster neutralized, means two seats lost for the Liberal Government—two votes gained for the party which refuses, as Non- conformists will do well to remember, to repeal the University teats.
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